Question

Read the excerpt from Animal Farm. Apart from the disputes over the windmill, there was the question of the defense of the farm. It was fully realized that though the human beings had been defeated in the Battle of the Cowshed they might make another and more determined attempt to recapture the farm and reinstate Mr. Jones. They had all the more reason for doing so because the news of their defeat had spread across the countryside and made the animals on the neighbouring farms more restive than ever. As usual, Snowball and Napoleon were in disagreement. According to Napoleon, what the animals must do was to procure firearms and train themselves in the use of them. According to Snowball, they must send out more and more pigeons and stir up rebellion among the animals on the other farms. The one argued that if they could not defend themselves they were bound to be conquered, the other argued that if rebellions happened everywhere they would have no need to defend themselves. What is the main conflict in this excerpt

Answer 1

The main conflict presented in this excerpt is that while Napoleon wants animals to protect themselves from possible human retaliation, Snowball wants more animals, on other farms, to revolt against humans.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is an excerpt from "Animal Farm" written by George Orwell, where animals on a farm decide to rebel against humans and take control of the farm. However, as we can see in this excerpt, humans are planning to retaliate and attack animals.

Snowball and Napoleon are the pigs that are leading the animals and they have different ideas about how they should act if humans attack. This difference of ideas is the main conflict in the text, where Snowball wants to encourage other animals, on other farms, to attack humans, while Napoleon wants the animals to protect themselves.